Uruma Law Offices Legal Professional Corporation

Intellectual Property and Licenses

It is absolutely essential for companies to protect technology-related intellectual property and trade secrets. In recent years, manufacturing has become highly dependent—and indeed could not exist without—special types of intellectual property such as software or content. Contractual relationships surrounding intellectual property demand a specialized legal knowledge that considers the Antimonopoly Act and various business laws. Our firm has established intellectual property law as one of the pillars of our business, and our practice includes contract negotiations, dispute prevention, and dispute resolution for various license agreements, OEM agreements, joint research and development agreements, and confidentiality agreements. In addition to focusing much of our efforts on intellectual property law, our firm participates in the Japan Association of Industrial Property Law, the Copyright Law Association of Japan, and the Law and Computers Association of Japan, and acquires the newest information on intellectual property in order to provide the best legal advice to our clients.